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fibmap_mplayer is long obsolete, noticed by Torinthiel.
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2 <!-- $Revision$ --> |
9675 | 3 <!-- FIXME: history really should be in the appendix --> |
4 <sect1 id="history"> | |
5 <title>History</title> | |
12815 | 6 |
10229 | 7 <blockquote><para> |
11792 | 8 This began a year ago... I have tried lots of players under Linux |
11540 | 9 (<application>mtv</application>, <application>xmps</application>, |
10 <application>dvdview</application>, <application>livid/oms</application>, | |
11 <application>videolan</application>, <application>xine</application>, | |
12 <application>xanim</application>, <application>avifile</application>, | |
13 <application>xmmp</application>) but they all have some problem. Mostly with | |
14 special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them are unable to play both | |
15 MPEG1, MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed | |
16 problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one... | |
10229 | 17 </para></blockquote><para>A'rpi, 2001</para> |
9675 | 18 |
10229 | 19 <para> |
9675 | 20 <itemizedlist> |
21 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 22 <emphasis role="bold"><application>mpg12play</application> v0.1-v0.3</emphasis>: Sep 22-25, 2000 |
9675 | 23 </para> |
24 <para>The first try, hacked together in a half hour! I've used libmpeg3 | |
25 from <ulink url="http://www.heroinewarrior.com"/> up to the version 0.3, but | |
26 there were image quality and speed problems with it. | |
27 </para></listitem> | |
28 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 29 <emphasis role="bold"><application>mpg12play</application> v0.5-v0.87</emphasis>: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000 |
11792 | 30 </para><para>MPEG codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a |
11212 | 31 great stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (A'rpi hates C++!!!) |
9675 | 32 </para></listitem> |
33 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 34 <emphasis role="bold"><application>mpg12play</application> v0.9-v0.95pre5</emphasis>: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000 |
11792 | 35 </para><para>MPEG codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman and |
9675 | 36 Michel Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect |
37 image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance. | |
38 </para></listitem> | |
39 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 40 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> v0.3-v0.9</emphasis>: Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000 |
9675 | 41 </para><para>It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my |
42 new simple AVI player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader. | |
43 </para></listitem> | |
44 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 45 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> v0.10</emphasis>: Jan 1, 2001 |
9675 | 46 </para><para>The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary! |
47 </para></listitem> | |
48 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 49 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> v0.11pre series</emphasis>: |
50 </para><para>Some new developers joined and since 0.11 the <application>MPlayer</application> | |
51 project is a team-work! Added ASF file support, and OpenDivX | |
9675 | 52 (see <ulink url="http://www.projectmayo.com"/>) en/decoding. |
53 </para></listitem> | |
54 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 55 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</emphasis> Apr 27, 2001 |
9675 | 56 </para><para>The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy |
57 development! Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... | |
58 and of course old code was improved too, bugs removed etc. | |
59 </para></listitem> | |
60 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 61 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.18 "The BugCounter"</emphasis> Jul 9, 2001 |
9675 | 62 </para><para>2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF |
63 support, more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to | |
64 audio), even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST! | |
65 </para></listitem> | |
66 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 67 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</emphasis> Oct 8, 2001 |
9675 | 68 </para><para>Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, |
69 bugs fixed, new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including | |
70 opensource DivX codecs and much more. Try it! | |
71 </para></listitem> | |
72 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 73 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</emphasis> Jan 3, 2002 |
9675 | 74 </para><para>MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, |
75 ADPCM codecs, and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, | |
11540 | 76 first release of <application>MEncoder</application>, TV grabbing, cache, |
77 liba52, countless fixes. | |
9675 | 78 </para></listitem> |
79 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 80 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter"</emphasis> Nov 11, 2002 |
9675 | 81 </para><para> Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it |
11540 | 82 came out 2 years after <application>MPlayer</application> v0.01. |
83 Happy birthday, <application>MPlayer</application>! | |
9675 | 84 </para></listitem> |
85 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 86 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.90rc1 "The CodecCounter"</emphasis> Dec 7, 2002 |
9675 | 87 </para><para>Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime) |
11540 | 88 and Windows Media 9 support, <application>MPlayer</application> is the |
89 world's first movie player with support for all known video formats! | |
9675 | 90 </para></listitem> |
91 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 92 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.90 "The CounterCounter"</emphasis> Apr 6, 2003 |
10132 | 93 </para><para>After more than 1 year, we finally concluded that the code was indeed |
94 stable again, and ready to be published as a release. Unfortunately we | |
95 forgot even to increase the version number, and other annoying bugs went | |
96 in, so get ready for... | |
97 </para></listitem> | |
98 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 99 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.91</emphasis> Aug 13, 2003 |
11030 | 100 </para><para>The above mentioned and lot of other bugs have been fixed. |
101 This is the latest stable version. | |
102 </para></listitem> | |
103 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 104 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 1.0pre1 "Development on the beach"</emphasis> Sep 1, 2003 |
11030 | 105 </para><para>Although this is not a stable release, I am going to mention |
11540 | 106 it because it is the first pre version of the 1.0 series of <application>MPlayer</application> |
107 and it is intended to help the <emphasis>big bug hunting party</emphasis>. | |
11030 | 108 This is a huge step forward! |
109 </para></listitem> | |
110 <listitem><para> | |
11540 | 111 <emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 1.0</emphasis> date yet unknown |
9675 | 112 </para></listitem> |
113 </itemizedlist> | |
114 </para> | |
115 </sect1> |